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Mining Reranker Training Data from RAG Citations

Using citation behavior in production RAG systems to generate labeled training data for domain-specific reranking models.

FEB 5, 2026
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Evaluating LLM Chat Agents with Real World Signals

How human follow-up behavior reveals response quality, and why specific instruction adherence outperforms vague relevance scoring.

FEB 5, 2026
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Advanced RAG

Relevancy Filtering in Retrieval Pipelines

Using LLM-based classification as a second pass to filter retrieval candidates when similarity thresholds fail to generalize.

JAN 29, 2026
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Advanced RAG

Applying HyDE to Domain-Specific Search

Using Hypothetical Document Embeddings to bridge vocabulary gaps between user queries and specialized document corpora.

JAN 22, 2026
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Structured Pre-Filtering for RAG Systems

Why decomposing queries into structured filters before semantic search improves retrieval precision and performance.

JAN 15, 2026
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Structured Logprobs for Better Classification

Combining chain-of-thought reasoning with logprob extraction improves LLM classification accuracy while giving you real confidence scores.

DEC 14, 2025
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